SimplyGuest offers fully-furnished shared accommodation for working professionals. These accommodation are completely managed. SimplyGuest will pay all the house-bills and provide maid services. In short, SimplyGuest will manage the house for its tenants. Tenant sourcing, verification, house-repairs, maid services are taken care by us. We provide a high-speed WiFi connection, a DTH subscription and a cooking gas connection (with unlimited gas supply).<p>This has been a hairy problem from both sides of the business, house owners and tenants. But we are on the right track to solve the problem. We have found early success in key problem areas.<p>We are a bootstrapped, profitable startup. We are in business for 11 months now.<p>__This is an India-centric submission.__
Interesting, definitely taps into a very large market.<p>Some Questions:
0. Website/app ? url ?
1. How many rooms/houses have you managed so far?
2. How many tenants? How many owners?
3. Whats your take (assuming you're renting on behalf of house owners)
4. How big is your team? track record of building products/businesses (not that it matters but good to highlight if you have done relevant stuff in the past)
5. What have you learned about the marketplace in the last 11 months?<p>meta-comment: I think Apply HN is a great idea. I (and I'm sure many others) might consider partnering/investing with promising ventures even if they actually don't get into HN)
This is really neat. It sounds like you're learning quickly. 22 houses in 11 months sounds like enough to learn from. Are all 22 houses rented out currently?<p>I've never been to India and don't understand the market too well. What would motivate someone to use your service instead of something like Airbnb? Is Airbnb the most popular service in India? Is this about short-term rentals (by the week or day) or longer term rentals (by the month)?